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Photo: Jacques-Jean Tiziou

Time Flies, Flows, and Follows: Return Return Departure

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Time—as concept, construct, and reality—was engulfed in layers of questions and musings, artifacts and objects, sound and movement.

Photo: Kevin Colton

Does Art Imitate Life?

Kristen Gillette

“Sometimes art really imitates life,” said Ronen “Roni” Koresh, as he introduced his evening-length work, Trust, at its premiere Thursday, November 29.

Photo: Kùlú Mèlé

Let the Roots Show – A Celebration of Dance, Life and Community

Lynnette Young Overby

This first-ever collaboration between Kùlú Mèlé and The Requisite Movers proved a rich cultural experience, from beginning libations to a final invitation onstage.

Photo: Anja Hitzenberger

Dance Incubators, ‘Torture’ and New Dance

Jonathan Stein

Three choreographers show their work from the Susan Hess Modern Dance Choreographers Project.

Photo: Peter Price

Encountering Deborah Hay

Patricia Graham

How often does one have the opportunity to attend a lecture by a pioneer of post-modern dance?

Photo: Jean Grosser

An Offering? I Want More!

Julie B. Johnson

Perhaps the program’s title, "An Offering," suggests that this is just a small quantity of what Phil Grosser has in store.

Photo: Bill Hebert

SHARPening the Focus

Kalila Kingsford Smith

I felt my focus SHARPen as I was pulled into each piece.

I think not, I think not, I think not

Becca Weber

Three distinct versions of the same Deborah Hay solo were performed by three Philadelphia artists.

Photo: La Dolce Photography

Lynching and Love

Megan Bridge

The audience’s first responses: “Celebration. Bearing witness. Transparency. Shadows. Remembering. Nooses dropping. Acceptance. Pain. Repetition. Awesome.”

Photo: James Klosty (1972)

May I Have This Dance, By Chance?

Lynn Matluck Brooks

I chance upon pieces dancing around the Bride: Cage’s neat scores, Duchamp’s nudes descending shattered large glasses, Cunningham’s reeling dances.